Improvement in bustles



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE.

JAMES WEHL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUSTLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,345, dated August 6, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES WEHL, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Bustle; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which drawing- Figure 1 represents a transverse vertical section of my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of the same.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

This invention consists in a bustle made of strips of pasteboard or paper in such a man-V I which is free from all danger o injuring the person wearing the same it' from some external pressure one of the springs or coils should break.

In the drawing, the letter A designates a bustle, which is made of horizontal strips a, of pasteboard, and vertical strips (l and coils b, also of pasteboard, said strips being united by means of paste or in any other desirable manner, and covered with paper or other substance to protect them against moisture or sweat. The waistband c may be strengthened by means of a metal wire, or it may be made of a simple strip of pasteboard, the same as the lower strips a. The coils b, which impart to the article the requisite form oi' a bustle, may be made in any desirable shape, and in practice three or more such coilsI may be used, though I have shown only two in the drawing.

A bustle constructed of strips of pasteboard, as described, is light and very convenient for wear. It is entirely free from danger, for if one of my paper bustles is exposed to some external pressure the worst that may happenv is to spoil its shape, While an ordinary bustle when hard pressed is liable to break, and the broken metal rings or wires may produce injury to the person wearing the bustle. My paper bustle is also very cheap, so that when it becomes soiled it can be thrown away and replaced by a new one at less expense than it cost-s to clean one ot' the ordinary bustles.

If desired, the waistband c,and also the upright strips el, may be made of tapes or other textile material, or of leather, to give the article greater durability. What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a skeleton bustle, the horizontal and vertical strips or ribs ot' which are composed of paper or pasteboard.

J AMES WEHL.

Witnesses:

W. HAUTE, E. F. KAsTENHUEEE. 

